Famously gray

Updated 9:25 AM ET, Tue March 1, 2016

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George Clooney – One signature of George Clooney's look is his salt-and-pepper hair. In a recent interview with BBC Radio, Clooney said he will never dye his hair to fight off the appearance of aging. Click through our gallery to see more famously gray-haired celebrities.

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Erykah Badu – Singer Erykah Badu, 44, proudly debuted her graying locks in a candid selfie in December 2015 with the caption "Body and brain have aged. My consciousness has witnessed this, Yet has not aged. This 'awareness' is who we are."

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Anderson Cooper – CNN's own Anderson Cooper, 48, started going gray at age 20. "You can, of course, dye," he wrote in 2005. "Plenty of guys do, but if you ask me, you might as well advertise your desperation."

Morgan Freeman – Some might say Morgan Freeman's gray hair matches his famous voice. When Jimmy Fallon took the helm of "The Tonight Show," 78-year-old Freeman famously warned that he had "watched three or four people in this job go gray."

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Emmylou Harris – Singer Emmylou Harris, 68, has been asked about her naturally gray hair many times over the years. During an interview with The New York Times in 2013, she offered this advice: "Women should do whatever makes them feel good, but I do wish that we would accept our aging selves."

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Richard Gere – Actor Richard Gere, 66, has never been a fan of dying his hair, which started to go gray when the actor was married to model Cindy Crawford during the early '90s.